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Fear stalks Tehran as Israel bombards, shelters fill up and communicating grows harder The streets of Tehran are empty, businesses closed, communications patchy at best. With no bona fide bomb shelters open to the public, panicked masses spend restless nights on the floors of metro stations as strikes boom overhead. This is Iran’s capital city, just under a week into a fierce Israeli blitz to destroy the country’s nuclear program and its military capabilities. After knocking out much of Iran’s air defense system, Israel says its warplanes have free rein over the city’s skies. U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday…
Israeli attacks kill 140 in Gaza in 24 hours, medics say, as focus shifts to Iran Israeli gunfire and strikes killed at least 140 people across Gaza in the past 24 hours, local health officials said, as some Palestinians in the Strip said their plight was being forgotten as attention has shifted to the air warbetween Israel and Iran. At least 40 of those killed over the past day died as a result of Israeli gunfire and airstrikes on Wednesday, Gaza's health ministry said. The deaths included the latest in near daily killings of Palestinians seeking aid in the three…
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Moscow will not allow Ukraine to have troops that threaten Russia — Putin Russia will not allow Ukraine to have armed forces that would pose a potential threat to Russia and its people, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with the heads of the world's leading news agencies organized by TASS. "We will not allow Ukraine to have the armed forces that pose a potential threat to the Russian Federation and its people," Putin said. He reiterated that demilitarization was among the objectives of the Russian special military operation. WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Kyiv mourns as death toll…
Israel-Iran air war enters sixth day, Trump calls for Iran's 'unconditional surrender' Iran and Israel launched new missile strikes at each other on Wednesday as the air war between the two longtime enemies entered a sixth day despite a call from U.S. President Donald Trump for Tehran's unconditional surrender. The Israeli military said two barrages of Iranian missiles were launched toward Israel in the first two hours of Wednesday morning. Explosions were heard over Tel Aviv. Israel told residents in a southwestern area of Tehran to evacuate so its air force could strike Iranian military installations. Iranian news websites said…
Israeli tanks kill 59 people in Gaza Israeli tanks fired into a crowd trying to get aid from trucks in Gaza on Tuesday, killing at least 59 people, according to medics, in one of the bloodiest incidents yet in mounting violence as desperate residents struggle for food. Video shared on social media showed around a dozen mangled bodies lying in a street in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israeli military, at war with Hamas-led Palestinian militants in Gaza since October 2023, acknowledged firing in the area and said it was looking into the incident. Witnesses interviewed by…
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE G7 abandons joint Ukraine statement as Zelenskiy says diplomacy in crisis Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy leaves the Group of Seven summit on Tuesday with new aid from host Canada for its war against Russia but without a joint statement of support from members or a chance to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump. The G7 wealthy nations struggled to find unity over the conflict in Ukraineafter Trump expressed support for Russian President Vladimir Putin and left a day early to address the Israel-Iran conflict from Washington. Canada dropped plans for the G7 to issue a strong statement on…
Israel activates 'Barak Magen' aerial defenses for system's first ever interception Israel activated a new aerial defense system – dubbed "Barak Magen," meaning "lightning shield" – for the first time on Sunday night, saying it intercepted and destroyed multiple Iranian drones. The Israeli Navy intercepted eight Iranian drones using the "Barak Magen" and its long-range air defense (LRAD) interceptor, which were launched from an Israeli navy Sa’ar 6 missile ship, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement. John Hannah, senior fellow at The Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) and the co-author of a report published…
War-weary Gazans share images of destruction in Israel Residents of the Gaza Strip have circulated images of wrecked buildings and charred vehicles hit by Iranian missiles in Israeli cities, and some were hopeful the wider conflict could eventually bring peace to their ruined homeland. Iranian missiles struck Tel Aviv and the Israeli port city of Haifa before dawn on Monday, killing at least eight people, part of a wave of attacks by Tehran in retaliation for Israel's strikes targeting its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes. "The Iranian response was a surprise to me, to many Palestinians, and the Israelis too.…
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russia attacks Kyiv with waves of drones, missiles Waves of Russian drones and missiles struck districts across the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early on Tuesday, damaging an apartment building, sparking fires and injuring up to 16 people, city officials said. Reuters witnesses said drones swarmed over the capital and they heard what appeared to be missiles overhead. An air raid alert remained in effect more than seven hours after it had been proclaimed. Other parts of the country also came under attack, including areas outside the capital and the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, where the regional governor reported at…
Trump vetoed Israeli plan to kill Iran's supreme leader, US officials say President Donald Trump vetoed an Israeli plan in recent days to kill Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Sunday. "Have the Iranians killed an American yet? No. Until they do we're not even talking about going after the political leadership," said one of the sources, a senior U.S. administration official. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said top U.S. officials have been in constant communications with Israeli officials in the days since Israel launched a massive attack on Iran in a…
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